Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brilliance, for once, had its rewards. As critic Kenneth Tynan proclaimed in 1966, "Laurence Olivier at his best is what everyone has always meant by the phrase 'a great actor.' " Director, producer, prime mover of Britain's National Theater, embodier of the most vital Shakespearean heroes, Olivier at his death last week at 82 held undisputed claim to yet another title: the 20th century's definitive man of the theater...
...that her second daughter, six-week-old Heather, had also been kidnaped by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying a gray revolver, she stretched credibility too far. Alton police contacted Jersey County Sheriff Frank Yocom, who had investigated Loralei's death, and he pronounced himself "flabbergasted -- I couldn't believe it had happened again...
...rifled through his letters until neighbors chased her away. Other journalists have surrounded his home, flashing cameras through windows and banging on doors. Still others have stolen bags of garbage from the curb. Then there are the sneers of strangers, the steady stream of Hazelwood songs and jokes, the death threats to his family from anonymous callers, some of whom promise to blow the pretty yellow house to smithereens. Whatever respite Hazelwood may have enjoyed as the story faded from the front pages probably ended last week, when the crippled Exxon Valdez, on its way for repairs, caused...
Over the past three decades, our space program has had its share of ups and downs, with the greatest triumph being the moon landings and the greatest failure being the death of the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger...
Meanwhile, many believers in a woman's right to control her own body have become absolutists as well, hooked on the Constitution. They fear that any breach in the constitutional barrier -- that is, any role for the democratic process in settling the abortion issue -- will condemn women to mass death by coat hanger. In April hundreds of thousands marched on Washington in a quixotic attempt to influence the very branch of Government whose independence from public pressure they count on to protect them from the mob on the other side...